Bereavement

I am the librarian at St Christopher's Hospice in South East London, UK

The hospice is the first of the modern hospices and it was founded by Dame Cicely Saunders .

The library has many resources on hospice and palliative care. Over 10,000 are catalogued and this includes books, journal articles and grey literature.

One of the strong points of the library is the material on bereavement. There are c30 subscriptions to journals on all aspects of palliative care, including 6 with a particular focus on bereavement.

There are also hundreds of books on bereavement in the library.

Any individual is welcome to contact me for information on bereavement. The database contains more than 1,000 references to articles, books, pamphlets and some unpublished material on bereavement, loss and grief issues in the stock of the library. It is aimed at those providing bereavement services but there is also material which would be useful to bereaved people.
Most people should be able to obtain references via their own libraries but we can supply articles for a charge. We lend books via other libraries.

The purpose of this blog is to publicise the new material on bereavement - as well as material available via links and some older material which is relevant

The plan is that is will be updated once a week